Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Audience Award; Terra di Siena Film Festival: Best International Film; Victoria Film Festival (Canada): Festival Prize—Audience Award.
“Tulipani: Love, Honour, and a Bicycle is a Dutch romance film that perfectly balances its whimsical outlook on life with heartfelt drama.”—Derek Jacobs, Cinema Axis

A wonderfully woolly tale of rediscovering one’s roots — and rectifying a decades-old wrongdoing in the process — Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle has more fantastic twists than its title has nouns.
It’s 1980, and young Montrealer Anna (Ksenia Solo) is embarking on what will prove to be a life-altering adventure. It was her mother’s dying wish to have her ashes returned to her hometown in Italy, and Anna finds the people of Puglia waiting with open arms and flapping gums. Her mother’s old friend Immacolata (Lidia Vitale) is a particularly gifted storyteller with a penchant for exaggeration, sometimes fudging the details but somehow getting everyone closer to the heart of things.
She tells stories of how Anna’s father, Gauke (Gijs Naber), biked from the Netherlands to Italy, introduced Dutch irrigation practices to Puglia, forged a successful enterprise growing and selling tulips, and bravely faced off armed extortionists with blistering kung-fu moves. Immacolata also makes other, more sombre claims, ones that will shake up Anna’s entire sense of identity and prompt her to settle some old scores on her parents’ behalf.
Bursting with colour and romance and teeming with charming performances — including one from Oscar nominee Giancarlo Giannini as an exceedingly patient detective — Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle is a story about travelling far and wide to ascertain who you are, and about the joys and consolations of storytelling itself.